The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 14, 1897, Page 4

3 EHAPI.L~ M. SHORTRIDOE, Eéitor end Proprietor. BSCRIPTION y ané Bundey Ca RATES—Pestage Free: cueweek. by carrier. §0.18 one yeur, by ma €00 &8, by mat BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Marke: & fan ¥ravcisce, Californts. Telopnens oo Main- 1808 EDITORIAL ROOMS 817 Ciay Biroe Main- 1074 BRANCH OFFICES 527 Mestgomery birest, corcer Ciay; epen wmil % 89 o'clock 56 Hayes eireet: open until §:30 O'dlock OFFIC OFFICE ooms 31 wne 4 Park ow, New Yorx O3 DAV OLTZ Fasvers Mansger. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL THE SUmMMER MmONInS t s specia em Pasha m as Carolina have ¢ ng bill whick e Benate e that a ever he field of Amer » have discovered a baser metals into gold Mr unfounded consent 1l long niladelpnis assessors, who are also year an increase ting population and & number of over 2000 zens are asking how these things o t ring that the assess- s are & announces th at region will build & fire in monor of W. J. Bryan on Then on the following day, when The Fresno F poritor laree bo and their enthusiasm have simal- taneously gone out, they will smesr their ashes on sackcloth and r them as can- did evidence of what they bave done. The Betool Board of Jolfet, (1L, finding itself flustered by the appearance of nearly 900 candidates for the office of Buperin- tendent of Schools, extricated itself from the fray by electing one of its own mem- bers to the position, and then explaining | to the outsiders that all were so good it wes impossible to choose between them. Pritchard Morgan, a member of Parlia- ment who has just returned from a voyage around the world, says that inside ten years there will be in the United States “the most awful revolution that has as- tounded the world of late.” The predic- tion is not worth mnch, but, coming from an Englishman, the Bryanites will prob- ably count It as & str According o the tales that are going round the recent legislative proceedings in Illinois cost the Chicago gas companies $250.000 and the streetear companies $750,000. 1t is therefors pleasing to recall tuat the chaplain of the Assembly on one occasion made a fervent prayer to the Al- mighty to ‘‘help the Legisiature remem- ver the poor tax-burdeued peovle.’” There has been formed in Chicago an association calling ftself “The British- American Queen Victoria Coronation ana Anniversary Medallion Presentation Cor- poration.” It intends Lo congratulate the Queen on her jubiles, present Ler with a medal and ask ber to pardon Mrs. May- brick. If the name can be used as a pole it will be long enough to reach every per- simmon aimed at. It is s8id that scarcely s day passes that Bpeaker Feed does not receive one or more requests to solve some intricate question of parliamentary law on which local parlismentarians have disagreed. The questions come from all sorts of assem- biles, and all parts of the country, and it is evident from their numbers that the Bpeaker is regarded as the greatest parli mentary referee on record. cuse represer s rilation S0 Mk e, therefore,’” re- r remarks the sagecious man from we adopted sed sixteen years ago by Mr cker, which will probably be * concerning comn zs. A knowledge of the facts cie ought certainly to “cause more reasonable feeling on the part of constitu- s w b they entrust and enabl€ them to the difficuities in the es. Nor does the tto mention “‘the loss of time might be utilized by action which owes its origin to the desire tc address not the House, but the constituency.” This is inevitable, and is the same in all ages and countries. There are times, he av when “one wishes that eloguence and speaking bore a close resemblance to rea. soning and deliberation.” In conclusion Mr. Reed says it mightas we!l be admitied at once that the faults of | legislative bodies are not the faults of legislators alone, but in some degree of the people thémselves. ‘‘So long,” he de- | clares, as we rate oratory too high and wisdom too low and gauge our represen- tatives by the number of times they get into the newspapers, and not by what we | ourselves know of their characters | | sire for opportunities for display and fail to create the desire for opportunities to do service.” THE OALIFORNIA HER. The Ban Benito Advance mourns the downfall of the California ben, as evi- | denced by the fact that six carioads of Esstern eggs were unloaded in Ban Fran- cisco last week. It is, indeed, & gloomy | commentary. Palpably tne California hen has been neglected. While we have | veen absorbed in the development of ihe California vegetable and the California lamb, the barnyard fowl, who so faith- fully serves us at breakfast, in conjunc- tion with the sacrificial California pig, | done into strips and fried in his own fat, has been largely overlooked. The result is painful to contemplate. Probably the most distressing feature of the business is the prospect of eating those Esstern eges—a seifish ground for | complaint after all. The Nebraska hen | 18 protific, but there her virtues end. Sne ihirly floods the markets with eggs, but shie looks only to the local needs. Her eggs are fresh only in Nebrasks. In California the climate does not acres with them, or possibly the ride from Nebraska bere over the mountains unsetties the careful poise which she eives to the yelks of them in preparing them for local cus- tomers, Anyhow they are considerably rattled by the time they land at a San Francisco breakfast-table, and they do the reputation of the Nebraska hen a great deal of harm. Wherefore the Nebraska hen is an unpopular competitor of the California hen and should be squelched. Eastern eggs, it is sald, can be bought up in job lots at 5 cents & dozen after they outiive their attractiveness as displayed and | abilities, 80 long we shall continue to de- | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY JUNE 14, 1897 e markeis. Then they an slow freight to San Francisco e needs pro be experime ed reached its destination, was oded by & charge of fulminate It would have been destruction to everything in eighborhood of whe: ck, and tunate that it exploded the can- it started. sure new wespons are n fact a good deal tter tefore they werd. Indeed the a before the total complete destruction missile. does come in nearly all the big guns w be for pot metal, and the whether skilied or cranky, will have to turn thelr attention to the constructio { sutomstic plows which will cultivat ¢ s0il without the #id of horses and the discovery of explosives that will lift the scaleby, the tencerest of & ee without skinning the bark or injuring buds. OONDITION OF TRADE From now op during the summer busi- ness will probably be of moderate volume. It is always so in midsumm the most the expectation is that with the cloe of summer a 200d fall trade will develop. This belief is expressed by the managers of the great trunk railroads, su as Chauncey M. Depew of the New York Central, Mr. Hantington, Mr. Gould, President Hill of the Great Northern and others of their class. They base their o | pectations on the pronounced increas | railroad earnings which has in been re- | marked of late and on the satisfactory { crop prospects. Of course all permanent improvement | must originate in a judicious tariff. The | whole country has come to this conclu- sion. Even the old free-traders of the South see it, as is evinced by the action of the Southern Senators in placing a duty | on cotton, | well founded in the minds of the Ameri- | can people and the free-trade fallacy is illid to rest along with other exploded theories, then business will revive, and | not until then. Present indications are that it will be laid to rest very shortly, One of the best signs at the moment is the strong undercurrent to the wheat | market. The situation is bullish all over | the world. The crop outlook in France and several other important countries is not brilliant. In the United Btat - | shortage is indicated by the Government report isened last week. Prices, however, | are slow to respond to th r condi- | tions, but it is the general opinion that | wheat has about touched bottom for the | present, and that later on, alter the har- | vestis over, prices will improve. Wheat | is the world’s great business barometer. | When it is up times are good, when it is | down times are hard; hence the present | outlook for this great staple is highly en- couraging. Merchandise Is quiet all over the coun- try. The movement is fair, but fluctua- tions are few and narrow, indicating an absence of speculation and a tendency among business men to confine their operations to the slow but legitimate cur- rents of trade. It is a safe and sure policy, and one which tends to beget con- fidence. Aside from these general conditions, trade presents no especial features worthy of comment at the moment. We must expect a quiet summer. In the fall, un- less all signs fail, trade ought to improve. COAST EXCHANGES The Capitola Sunset is one of the latest ar- rivals in the newspaper fleld. It is published by Sanborn & Barney and gives all the news | of the preity seaside resort. According to the Repub'ican efforts are being made to secure a public park 1 Fresno. The Chamber of Commerce of that place has taken hold of the matter and the chances are the scheme will go through The Balinas Oul is agitating the question of bullding sn electric raiiroad from that place with the evening pspers of Ssa service has been enlarged he State, 58 e rger crop of 2 wes expec seems 1o bring 8bOT r, even under | When this great fact becomes | | | parsg from » Miner most fave goes along obstacles: A c The following recent 0 prove to the Gov, States that we were dead alive. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVE; The five dockyards In Gres a little over 23,000 m in the eng. Austria will s w water-tube boil- ers in s torpedo cruiser 300 tons building at Pola. There will be eight bolers of collec- t 8000/ power, and each boller will 2500 squere feet hef ing surface tlimento T exisiing in the Otioman navy. nths ago one of the old ironclads wes taken o drydock to get rid of the oysters on her m, but before the work was completed a British merchant stesmer came along in need of repairs and for a douceur of £25 the Turkish naval euthorities took the ironclad outand ted the merchant ship. The latter re- 1 dock for over a month, and in the meantime the naval vessels were unabie to the requisite docking preparatory to their cruise against the Greek navy. According to Brassey the comparative ton- nage of Great Britain and the collective navies France and Russia will be at the end of 1897 as follows. ] £ EZ z2 Smre. ¥ i Battieanips . 0| 504,871 Armored craisers.. 142,985 Coast dctense 90,568 Protected cruisers 829 Unprotected cruisers. ... 31,149 Torpsdo-gun vessels 22,940 Destroyers, number, 5 Much of the tonnage of the respective navies is antiquated, but upon the whole the British navy contains less obsolete maierial than Frauce and Russia, Two antiquated ships of war, the Grampus and Menelaus, are after long years of useful- ness 10 be s0ld out of the British navy. The Grampus, lsunched in 1784, wes intended for a 7d-gun skip, but her lower tier came 5o alarm- ingly close to the water that it became ueces- sary to reduce her 10 & 50-gun ship, and as such she made an unsatisfactory experimental trip aud was soon relegated to retirement from ive service. During her uneventful Itfe of over oue ceatury she has served as a block- ship, powder depot, and lastly been used by the War Departwent for stowage of navai mines at Portsmouth. The Menelaus was launched in 1810, and was actively employed during the war of 1812-18 between this country and Great Britain. In August, 1814, her captain— Sir Peter Parker—took the Menelaus up the Chesapeake to make a diversion above Balti. mote, with disastrous resuits, for the gallant captaln was killed and the “diversion’ was on the part of the Americans. Captain Cham. fer, in his story of “Life of & Saflor,” gives a good description of the affair. After the war the Monelaus was Iald up, serving for many yea quarantine ship at Spithead. The oldent ships i the United States navy are the Constitution and Constellation, built in 1797, The former lies in a state of dilapidation at Portsmouth, N. H., the latter since 1804 is sta- tionary training ship at Rhode Isiand. The Independence, at Mare Island, was built in 1814 and since 1858 has been a store and re- ceiving ship at that station. | have taken possession of Argonaut at Belvedere, whero they will spend | gteld, wes & irest corresponden provoked by e ¥ i | o i g ETTE ey g l‘m I shineth mpon the darkness, but the darkness comprehendeth ulu is & guest st the t Singaporeisa g a C. Wesson of Flagstafl, Ariz., is s banker Fresno, iss ey, & ra ock m, 15 George Myers guest et the Baldw! F. A. How stopping at es P. Braslaw mt of Fresno, is a ness man of Hanford, is Chicago reg red at & merchant ot Fresno, ? Clements, ct Attorney smopolitan. came down from tered at the Pal- b, a mining man of Shingle Springs d st the Russ House last even- Colonel W Hotel. A Paddleford, a merch Ariz., arrived yes Grand. C. 0. Ziegentuss, ed of the Fresno Ex- » , 18 1o the City sojourning at the Baid- win Hotel B.L McCoy, s surveyor of the Nelson re- trict, Orovilie, is registered at flliam Forsyth, s prominent wer of Fresno, is at the Occidental t of Kingman, erday and is stopping at the W.H. Bord and E Elliott, zens of Powell Valley, Or Cosmopolitan. Horace Annesiey Vachell chell, of S Luis Oblspo, registered at the Palace yesterday. lee Chu, s prominent lumber merchant of Houolulu, arrived from the East yesterday and put up at the Grand. G.L Carnegle and T. U. Carnegle, of Pitte- burg have returned from Los Angeles. They are registered at the Palace. 1. W. Hyde, & prominent real estate man ot Fresno, accompanied by his wile, is in the City, staying at the Cosmopolitan. Messrs. Mark E. Lewis and David F. Lane the splendid ark ploneer eiti- are guestsat the and Arthur V. the summer. Mme. von Trentler and Miss von Trentler, of Germany, are at the Palace Hotel The ma- dame 15 on her way to Japan to join her hus- band, who is connected with the German lega- tion at Tokio. “JUST FOR FUN." Cruel Jokes are ofien played, Just for fun"; Oft a fool’s whole stock In trade Is “just in fun! Cries of “fire”” have been ralsed, Nervous women have been crazed; Rusty gunsa: folks are almed, Many a man is kil'ed or maimed, +Just for fun Loving hearts have often bled, “Just for fun": Eyes are oft made molst and red, “Just for fun; Man# and many & thoughtless fool Fas ignored the Golden Rul Many aud many a b Many & man's a stupid bore, “Just for fun ” Ab, the 00! must have his way “Just for fun”; He I with us ana o siay, “Just for tuu; But it there's a fiery bole, For the losi—the outcast goul, What a oy will Satan t Waen ha sees it burn and bake, “Just for fuu ! Cleveland Leader. e WITH YOUR COFFEE. Listle Jack Horner. sa: in the corner, Eating a baker's plo He stuck in his thumb, and pulled out a plam (Which proves thet the siory’s & lte.) ~The Jester. At the concert—+Tnere sesms to be an aw- fully bad air in here.” B, it 18 nothing. Just wait till you hear Miss Squeels try to sing.”—Indianapolis Jour- Years ego, when Judge Lovell had opened court, a stranger appeared at his side, saying: “‘Judge, it is just five years ago yesterday that you sentenced me 1o prison, right_here in this 700m, and as I had nothin' to do I just loafed bought one expected us 10 throw in a c chewing gum WOMEN, is going Quaker, kept s diary, o have &1l quarters of the fatherlend &nd ere knows &s “Bismarck oeks.” spanese ibrone, ma ks his this 71, the heir to the e Arisugews Takubiio, now eir spparent a8 niways been feliek hes, and he Dever wae the sddresses he £ve poke spoke elo- ying festures of Presi. addresses it the e: ¥ © expresses bie fe P and early prosperit mist, e uodersian 825 Eate to Chicago via the Grest Santa Fe Route. s made for Chr blic as er before e Ei forniaz man Palace ing-cars of the iatest pattern t sleeping-cars ru and pler to Chicago. ing columa. Francisco t et, Chronicle butiding. land, 1118 Erosdw: $32 50 to Si. Paul, Minneapolis Chicago. ts will be on sale Ju Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrap™ been nsed over fifty years by m mothers for iheir chidren whiie Teething with pan fect auccess. It oothesthe child, sofiensibe allays Pain. cures Wind Colic, regu e Bowels snd 1s the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, wheiher ara- IDg from tee.hing or other causes. Fer snie by drag 1518 1D every pari of the world. Be sure and ask far Mre. Wingiow’s Sooth! he scaip soon causes b cools and cieanses ness. Ayers I d clothes it | NEW TO-DAY. and sell. stylish it looks | here for your choosing. N. P. Cole & Co., 117-121 Geary Street Bedroom suits—816.50 to $g50. $16.50 is the lowest priced suit we care to recommend When a good suit for less money is made we'll have it. 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